Intertextuality in the Book of Jubilees

Intertextuality in the Book of Jubilees

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The second century BCE Book of Jubilees presents the contents of Genesis-copyright in a new Champagne Stoppers form.This article studies the techniques used in Jubilees 23.It indicates how Psalm 90:10 was used to link the death of Abraham to a declining-inclining scheme of longevity.This scheme was then Hyssop combined with a heptadic jubilee scheme.To this the author added a Deuteronomistic retributive scheme of sin-punishment-repentance-salvation.

On this combination an apocal-yptic framework was finally superimposed.